Identity in the Information Age
Authenticity, Self-Presentation, Self-Promotion—Context Collapse and Online Image Management
- Erin Coulehan, “Leading the double Instagram life: When the secret “fake” account looks infinitely more real,” Salon.com 10 July 2015
- Jenny L Davis and Nathan Jurgenson, “Context collapse: theorizing context collusions and collisions,” Information, Communication & Society, 2014 Vol. 17, No. 4, 476–485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2014.888458
- Teresa Gil-Lopez, Michal Kosinski, and David Stillwell, “One Size Fits All: Context Collapse, Self-Presentation Strategies and Language Styles on Facebook,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 23 (2018)
- Rachel Gutman, “Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet,” The Atlantic 28 June 2018
- Oliver L. Haimson and Anna Lauren Hoffmann, “Constructing and enforcing “authentic” identity online: Facebook, real names, and non-normative identities,” First Monday, Vol 21, No 6, 6 June 2016 DOI 10.5210/fm.v21i6.6791
- Farhad Manjoo, “While We Weren’t Looking, Snapchat Revolutionized Social Networks” New York Times 30 Nov 2016
- Alice Marwick and danah boyd, “I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse,and the imagined audience.” New Media & Society 7 July 2010
- Alice Marwick, “The Public Domain: Social Surveillance in Everyday Life,” Surveillance & Society 9(4) 2012
- Alice Marwick, “Lifestreaming: We Live in Public,” chap. 5 in Status Update (Yale Univ. Press, 2013)
- Emily van der Nagel and Jordan Frith, “Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and the Agency of Online Identity,” First Monday vol. 20, no. 3, 2 March 2015
- Mikaela Pitcan, Alice Marwick, and Danah Boyd, “Performing a Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 23 (2018)
- Valeriya Safronova, “On Fake Instagram, a Chance to Be Real,” New York Times 18 Nov 2015
- Jacob Silverman, “The War against Identity,” in Terms of Service (2015)
- Lisa Thomas, Pam Briggs , Andrew Hart, & Finola Kerrigan, “Understanding social media and identity work in young people transitioning to university,” Computers in Human Behavior 76 (2017)
- José van Dijck, “‘You have one identity’: performing the self on Facebook and LinkedIn,” Media, Culture & Society vol. 35 no. 2 (2013)
Romance, Soulmates, Choice, Desire, Satisfaction—Dating Apps
- Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance
- Julie Beck, “The Rise of Dating App Fatigue,” The Atlantic 25 October 2016
- Erin Coulehan, “Swipe right, it’s actually Leo!: Tinder’s new verified accounts might be the death of romantic serendipity,” Salon.com 7 July 2015
- Ashley Fetters, “The 5 Years that Changed Dating,” The Atlantic 21 December 2018
- Eli Finkel, “In Defense of Tinder,” New York Times 6 February 2015
- Brooke Lea Foster, “The Tinder Dating Pool Isn’t Completely Shallow,” New York Times 26 March 2016
- Amanda Hess, “Online Dating Will Soon Be Obsolete,” Slate.com 21 October 2013
- Amanda Hess, “The Women! They’re Using Gadgets and Having Sex!” Slate.com 18 August 2015
- Maggie MK Hess, “Tinder isn’t swiping out romance: Why reports of the dating apocalypse may be greatly exaggerated,” Salon.com 14 August 2015
- Mitchell Hobbs, Stephen Owen, and Livia Gerber, “Liquid love? Dating apps, sex, relationships and the digital transformation of intimacy.” Journal of Sociology vol. 53 no. 2 (2017)
- Amanda Lenhart, Monica Anderson, and Aaron Smith, “Teens, Technology and Romantic Relationships,” Pew Research Center, 1 Oct 2015
- Amanda Marcotte, “Maybe Sexting Is How Teenagers Will Learn About Consent,” slate.com 7 Oct 2014
- Esther Perel, “How Technology has Transformed How We Connect — and Reject — in the Digital Age,” Ted Ideas 23 March 2017
- Narissra Punyanunt-Carter and Jason S. Wrench, editors, The Impact of Social Media in Modern Romantic Relationships (2017)
- Nancy Jo Sales, “Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse,” Vanity Fair Sept 2015
- Barry Schwartz, Interview with Paul Hiebert, Pacific Standard 18 December 2014
- Dan Slater, “A Million First Dates,” The Atlantic Jan/Feb 2013
- Aaron Smith, “15% of American Adults Have Used Online Dating Sites or Mobile Dating Apps,” Pew Research Center 11 February 2016
- Sherry Turkle, “Stop Googling: Let’s Talk,” New York Times 26 Sept 2015
Memory and Change—Digital Persistence and the “Right to Be Forgotten”
- Petter Bae Brandtzaeg and Marika Lüders, “Time Collapse in Social Media: Extending the Context Collapse,” Social Media + Society January-March 2018
- Jacquelyn Ann Burkell, “Remembering Me: Big Data, Individual Identity, and the Psychological Necessity of Forgetting” Ethics of Information Technology (2016) 18: 17-23
- Casey Johnston, “Snapchat, Instagram Stories, and the Internet of Forgetting,” New Yorker 5 Aug 2016
- Mikaela Pitcan, Alice Marwick, and Danah Boyd, “Performing a Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 23 (2018)
- Eric Posner, “We All Have the Right to Be Forgotten,” Slate.com 14 May 2014
- Jeffrey Rosen ,“The Web Means the End of Forgetting,” New York Times, 21 July 2010
- Jeffrey Toobin, “The Solace of Oblivion” New Yorker, 29 September 2014
Freedom of Thought and Self-Determination in the Attention Economy—Digital Surveillance, Search Personalization, and Filter Bubbles
Search Personalization, Filter Bubbles, and Polarization
- Nathan Heller, “The Failure of Facebook Democracy,” New Yorker 18 November 2016
- Adrienne LaFrance, “The Power of Personalization,” Nieman Reports 18 October 2017
- Farhad Manjoo, “How the Internet Is Loosening Our Grip on the Truth” New York Times 2 Nov 2016
- Eli Pariser, “Beware online ‘filter bubbles,’” TED Talk March 2011
- Eli Pariser, Introduction to The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You (2011)
- Cass Sunstein, “The Polarization of Extremes,” Chronicle of Higher Education 14 December 2007
- Zeynep Tufekci, “YouTube, the Great Radicalizer,” New York Times 10 March 2018
- Zeynep Tufekci, “We're Building A Dystopia Just To Make People Click On Ads,” TED Talk Global NYC 20 September 2017
Big Data — How Businesses, Political Groups, and Governments Collect and Use Personal Data
- Alessandro Acquisti, "What will a future without secrets look like?" TED Global 2013
- Paul Bisceglio, “The Dark Side of that Personality Test You Just Took,” The Atlantic 13 July 2017
- danah boyd and Kate Crawford. “Critical Questions for Big Data” Information, Communication, & Society 15:5 (2012) p. 662-679.
- Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-Harrison, “How Cambridge Analytica Turned Facebook ‘Likes’ into a Lucrative Political Tool,” The Guardian 17 Mar 2018
- Carole Cadwalladr, “Google, Democracy and the Truth about Internet Search” 4 December 2016 The Guardian
- Keith Collins and Gabriel J.X. Dance, “How Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your Thinking,” New York Times 20 March 2018
- Vanessa Friedman and Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Cambridge Analytica Used Fashion Tastes to Identify Right-Wing Voters,” New York Times 29 November 2018
- McKenzie Funk, “The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz” New York Times 19 November 2016
- Alexander Furnas, "It's Not All About You: What Privacy Advocates Don't Get About Data Tracking on the Web" The Atlantic 15 March 2012
- Jennifer Golbeck, “The Curly Fry Conundrum,” TED Talk Oct 2013
- Sue Halpern, “Cambridge Analytica and the Perils of Psychographics,” The New Yorker 30 March 2018
- Sue Halpern, “They Have, Right Now, Another You,” New York Review of Books 22 December 2016
- Amanda Hess, "How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful” New York Times Magazine 9 May 2017
- Chavie Lieber, “Cambridge Analytica used fashion preferences to target people on Facebook,” Vox 29 November 2018
- Michael P. Lynch, "Privacy and the Threat to the Self” New York Times 22 June 2013
- Alice Marwick, “How Your Data Are Being Deeply Mined,” New York Review of Books 9 January 2014
- S. C. Matz, M. Kosinski, G. Nave, and D. J. Stillwell, “Psychological Targeting as an Effective Approach to Digital Mass Persuasion,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 28 Nov 2017, Vol.114 No. 48
- Bruce Schneier, “How We Sold Our Souls – and More – to the Internet Giants,” The Guardian 17 May 2015
- Jacob Silverman, “The Myth of Privacy” (excerpt) in Terms of Service (2015)
- Zeynep Tufekci, “Engineering the public: Big data, surveillance and computational politics,” First Monday vol. 19, no. 7, 7 July 2014
- Zeynep Tufekci, “Mark Zuckerberg, Let Me Pay for Facebook,” New York Times 4 June 2015
- Zeynep Tufekci, “The Latest Data Privacy Debacle,” New York Times 30 January 2018
Awareness of Digital Surveillance and How It Affects Behavior (e.g. self-censorship as reaction)
- Jonathon W. Penney, “Whose Speech Is Chilled by Surveillance?” Slate.com 7 July 2017
- Jonathon W. Penney, Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use, Berkeley Technology Law Journal Vol. 31:1 (2016), doi.org/10.15779/Z38SS13
- Neil Richards, “A Theory of Intellectual Privacy,” in Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2015
- Neil Richards, “The Electronic Panopticon,” Chronicle of Higher Education 16 March 2015
- Neil M. Richards, “Google Has Captured Your Mind,” Salon.com 26 February 2015
- Jathan Sadowski, "Why Does Privacy Matter? One Scholar's Answer," The Atlantic 26 February 2013
- Jacob Silverman, “What Machines Know: Surveillance Anxiety and Digitizing the World,” Full Stop 10 August 2016
- Shoshana Zuboff, “Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization,” Journal of Information Technology 30 (2015)
- Bianca Bosker, “The Binge Breaker,” The Atlantic Nov 2016
- Megan Garber, “The Attention Games,” The Atlantic 2 November 2018
- Ian Leslie, “The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive,” 1843 Magazine, The Economist, October/November 2016
- Andrew Sullivan, “I Used to Be a Human being,” New York Magazine 18 September 2016
- Sherry Turkle, “Stop Googling: Let’s Talk,” New York Times 26 Sept 2015
- Sherry Turkle, excerpt from ”The Public Square,” in Reclaiming Conversation
- Erin A. Vogel, Jason P. Rose, Lindsay R. Roberts, and Katheryn Eckles, “Social Comparison, Social Media, and Self-Esteem,” Psychology of Popular Media Culture Vol. 3, No. 4 (2014)
- Jacob Weisberg, “We Are Hopelessly Hooked” New York Review of Books 25 Feb 2016
- Jacob Weisberg, “They’ve Got You, Wherever You Are” New York Review of Books 27 Oct 2016
Self-Knowledge and the Rise of Self-Tracking and Self-Improvement Apps
- Susannah Fox, "The Self-Tracking Data Explosion,” Pew Research Center 4 June 2013
- Kashmir Hill, “Adventures in Self-Surveillance, aka The Quantified Self, aka Extreme Navel-Gazing,” Forbes 7 April 2011
- Robinson Meyer, “The Quantified Welp,” The Atlantic 25 February 2016
- Frank Pasquale, “The Algorithmic Self,” The Hedgehog Review vol. 17 no. 1 (Spring 2015)
- Evan Selinger, "Today's Apps Are Turning Us Into Sociopaths,” Wired 26 Feb 2014
- Tamar Sharon and Dorien Zandbergen, “From Data Fetishism to Quantifying Selves: Self-tracking Practices and the Other Values of Data,” New Media & Society vol. 19 no. 11 (2017)
- Emily Singer, “The Measured Life,” MIT Technology Review 21 June 2011
- Natasha Singer, "Technology That Prods You to Take Action, Not Just Collect Data,” New York Times 18 April 2015
- Jacob Urist, “From Paint to Pixels,” The Atlantic 14 May 2015
- José van Dijck, "Datafication, Dataism and Dataveillance: Big Data between Scientific Paradigm and Ideology,” Surveillance & Society vol. 12, no. 2 (2014)
- Gary Wolf, "The Data-Driven Life,” New York Times Magazine 28 April 2010
Self-Esteem, Happiness, Friendship—Social Comparison, Social Ties, and FOMO in the Age of Social Media
- Kyle Chayka, “How Ambient Intimacy Became So Overwhelming,” Pacific Standard 2 Jan 2015
- Kyle Chayka, “The New, Improved Online Friendship,” New York Magazine 24 March 2015
- Erin Coleman, “Leading the double Instagram life: When the secret “fake” account looks infinitely more real,” Salon.com 10 July 2015
- Bruce Feiler, “For the Love of Being ‘Liked’” New York Times 9 May 2014
- Alex Frank, “#NoFilter: Experimenting With an Unedited Online Life” Vogue 6 January 2015
- Patricia Garcia, “An Instagram Star Quits Social Media, Says It’s Not Real Life,” Vogue 2 November 2015
- Ira Glass, narrator, “Status Update” (Prologue and “Act One: Finding the Self in Selfie”). This American Life Podcast, Chicago Public Radio, 27 November 2015. MP3 file.
- Maria Konnikova, “How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy,” New Yorker 10 Sept 2013
- Maria Konnikova, “The Limits of Friendship,” New Yorker 7 Oct 2014
- Mikaela Pitcan, Alice Marwick, and Danah Boyd, “Performing a Vanilla Self: Respectability Politics, Social Class, and the Digital World,” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 23 (2018)
- Valeriya Safronova, “On Fake Instagram, a Chance to Be Real,” New York Times 18 Nov 2015
- Andrew Sullivan, “I Used to Be a Human being,” New York Magazine 18 September 2016
- Zeynep Tufekci, “Social Media's Small, Positive Role in Human Relationships,” The Atlantic.com 25 Apr 2012
- Clive Thompson, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy, New York Times 5 Sept 2008
- Sherry Turkle, “Connected but Alone,” TED Talk Feb. 2012
- Teddy Wayne, “Found on Facebook: Empathy,” New York Times 9 Oct 2015
- Jessica Winter, “Selfie-Loathing: Instagram Is Even More Depressing than Facebook. Here’s Why,” Slate.com 23 July 2013
- Jenna Wortham, “Feel Like a Wallflower? Maybe It’s Your Facebook Wall,” New York Times 8 Apr 2011